A shopkeeper who came to the aid of a stabbed woman said he distracted an alleged assailant long enough for her to grab the knife and throw it down the road.
Helen Coulston, 46, is now fighting for her life after the broad daylight attack at the home on Weonga Road in Dover Heights, one of Sydney’s most exclusive addresses.
A woman is fighting for her life after being stabbed by a man who arrived at her door on Monday. Credit: Edwina Pickles
Builder Peter Haramis, 37, was eating lunch on a nearby island with two concrete workers when they heard the woman’s screams and started walking, then ran up the hill as the sounds grew more panicky .
Coulston was screaming, “Help me, help me, he’s going to kill me,” he said.
When he reached the three-level house, the woman doubled over at his door with a standing man. The man was not her husband Walt Coulston.
Helen Coulston. Credits: Facebook
“He looked at me and froze… so I thought to myself, this is it, I think I have to fight him here,” she said. But just as he was about to start running, the woman took advantage of the split second that had stopped her attacker.
“She took the knife and threw it in front of me on the road.”
Haramis said he was able to grab the knife, which had “about four inches of blood” along it, and the woman ran inside her home and locked the door.